Obama watched the raid with his cabinet in the situation room.

[dkf]

The helicopter carrying Navy SEALs malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound at about 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday, stalling as it hovered. The pilot set it down gently inside the walls, then couldn’t get it going again.

It was a heart-stopping moment for President Barack Obama, who had been monitoring the raid in the White House Situation Room since 1 p.m., surrounded by members of his war cabinet.

“Obviously, everyone was thinking about Black Hawk Down and Desert One,” a senior administration official recalled.

The SEALs disembarked.

“The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home,” an official said.

The special forces put bombs on the crippled chopper and blew it up, then lifted off in a reinforcement craft just before 4:15 p.m., capping an astounding 40 minutes that gave the United States a tectonic victory in the 10-year war on terror touched off by 9/11.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54093.html

[loudsue]

1. Holy Shit!! You'd think someone would do something about those blackhawks!

"The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home,” an official said.

Holy shit!!

[Recursion]

6. This is the same SEAL team...

...that shot the Somali pirate from 200 yards away. While treading water.

[TTUBatfan2008]

7. Certified badasses...

No doubt about it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. What heroes!

I want to see the movie--tomorrow!

[dems_rightnow]

4. I'm sure it's in the works already

.... at least conceptually.

[RobertSeattle]

18. I want it to come out October 2012... :-)

[Renew Deal]

3. Where did the helicopters take off from?

I know they landed in Afghanistan. But I wonder how they got in undetected.

[sufrommich]

10. I doubt they'll publicize how they did it. nt

[Historic NY]

13. Paint & graphics are a wonderful thing.....vinyl wraps work well too.

[Renew Deal]

14. huh

:shrug:

[Historic NY]

23. remarking the choppers.

[glinda]

19. Flew low under the radar. Hard to do with mountains and hills.

[tabatha]

5. There will be a movie about this.

Sooner than later.

[MilesColtrane]

8. "tectonic victory"

It's great, I am glad that fucker's dead, but this hardly changes the fact that there will be plenty of like minded individuals aspiring to his level of savage criminality.

Bush did more to recruit violent anti-American revenge seekers than OBL ever did.

It's certainly a victory of the highest profile, but maybe not tectonic or fundamental.

[jwirr]

16. We can only hope that OBL was the money behind Al Quaida and

that their funding will not allow them so much room to act.

[MilesColtrane]

17. Agreed.

I have a feeling though that there's plenty of money flowing out of Saudi Arabia that will continue to find its way to terrorists.

But, we can't get tough with them. They're our "allies" (oil pushers).

[glinda]

20. I think he was funded as he had little access to his money.

[tammywammy]

9. k&r n/t

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[rollin74]

12. a job well done

:patriot: :thumbsup:

[Barack_America]

15. The appropriate thing for the man who gave the order to do. nt

[joeunderdog]

21. How much did we pay for the broken helicopter that put troops at extreme risk?

For the kind of money we get gouged for when we buy this equipment, shouldn't it be able to make a round trip?

[TalkingDog]

22. You said/I read

Obama watched the raid with his cabinet in the situation room.

vs

Obama watched the raid in his cabin with The Situation in the room.


I'm going: WTF? Luckily, it's just my brain that's screwed up and not the President.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Now that's funny.

:rofl:

[dkf]

25. Lol.

Now that would really be something.